Miscelluneous, 



-183 



MISCELLAXl'XJUS. 



Note on the Dat-s of " The Zoology of the ' Beagle.' " 



Gentlesiks, — Hy the courtesy of Messrs. Smith, Elder, aud Co., I 

 was enabled, in Aug;ust 189.5, to ascertain the contents and dales 

 of the separate parts of " The Zoology of the ' Beagle.' " 1 append 

 the data for the convenience of other workers ; and as the items in 

 column 4 of Messrs. Smith, Elder, & Co.'s report include titlepages, 

 fly-sheets, &c., I have added in .square brackets the actual text 

 pagination for greater clearness. 



C. Da VIES Sherborn 

 (' Index animalium 'j. 



White Ants ; with some Account of their Habits and Depredations. 

 By Walter W. Froggatt, New South Wales Government Ento- 

 mologist. 



Specimens of potatoes were received from Mr. Broughton Corrie, 

 Colo Vale, about the middle of February, with the information that 

 when harvesting his crop he had found those in one corner of the 

 field covered with white ants, which were burrowing into and 

 gnawing the centres out of otherwise perfectly sound tubers ; but 

 as none of the insects were sent with this consignment, further 

 information was asked for. 



In response to my request, further samples of potatoes were sent 

 down swarming with live soldiers and workers of these destructive 

 little creatures, and so honeycombed with their attacks that only 



